Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 208 Dumbledore and Grindelwald

Dumbledore also seemed to be a little nostalgic, his blue eyes narrowed with a smile, and he didn't mean to blame at all.

"It makes me feel that I am not so old, and the night is also very suitable for expressing my thoughts, and the atmosphere is quiet enough."

He took another sip of his coffee and said.

"I know you have something on your mind, Toby, you found out when you borrowed the Mirror of Erised from me—it wasn't Legilimency, don't I know my students well enough? You can tell me , it won't take you long before you drink up this glass of the most delicious lemonade."

The two stood side by side, and Toby didn't immediately express his intention to speak, and was silent for a while.

Toby took a few sips of lemon juice, and seeing that the remaining amount was less than half, it didn't fill up automatically, nor did it turn into a fountain and pour Toby's face—don't doubt, Dumbledore could do this Little Toby encountered it many times when he was in school.

"Okay." Toby put down the cup, and he said slowly, "In the final analysis, everything is still related to the magic ball."

Toby finally revealed all the facts, including Regulus he met later, plus his remarks-Voldemort is in Azkaban, and it is very likely that he will make some big moves.

As for the locket, Toby also talked about it half-heartedly.

But what he didn't expect was that instead of asking to take the locket away, Dumbledore handed him two things instead.

One of them is Tom Riddle's diary.

The other one was an old quill that seemed to be made of the feathers of a bu bird.

Toby took the diary in surprise, but when he went to get the quill, he found that Dumbledore's fingers were still tightly clenched, and he couldn't take it out for a while.

"Principal?" Toby asked confusedly, not knowing what Dumbledore meant by this move.

Thinking in Dumbledore's eyes, he said softly: "I have a task for you, Toby, about finding Voldemort."

"Whether it is a locket, a crown, or a diary, I guess they are all closely related to Voldemort, and there is a certain connection. In addition, Voldemort may not only leave these things behind, but also more .”

"I need you to find out Voldemort and these things. For this reason, I will give you the diary, plus the locket you already have, this can at least be used as a reference to help you better carry out experiment."

"Wait a minute." Toby interrupted: "Is this what you've been busy with recently? Want to find the mysterious person with the diary and the crown?"

Dumbledore nodded.

Toby asked again, "But why don't you give me the crown too?"

"Because it is safe for the time being." Dumbledore said: "The consciousness of Ms. Ravenclaw remains in the diadem. It does not want to help Voldemort do evil, so it can stay longer without worrying about causing any trouble."

"In other words, the reason why I handed over the diary to you is that even if I intend to destroy the diary and the locket when you think there is nothing else to do, I believe you have the ability. If it is really impossible, use Gryffin A lot of swords, I have put it beside Al's bed, after all, Al is the one who took the sword out of the sorting hat."

"There should be other ways," Toby murmured, "Fiendfire, Killing Curse, I'm not sure, at least the scepter is still in my hand - what about this quill? What is it?" ?”

"Its name is the Pen of Acceptance," said Dumbledore. "The Pen of Acceptance was created by the founder of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Witchcraft and Wizardry. It appeared even earlier than Hogwarts Castle was built." Early, for it was placed in the locked tower with the Book of Access when the castle was completed."

"It detects the birth of a child gifted with magic, and writes it in a great book of parchment—the Book of Access."

"I'll give it to you now."

Dumbledore let go of his hand and said, "I hope it will help you find Voldemort better."

"Of course it will help." Toby squinted his sparkling eyes: "It was created by the founders. Do you think House also participated in this process? He is also one of the creators?"

"It's hard to say." Dumbledore shook his head.

Toby stared at the pen of acceptance for a while, and suddenly he looked up and down Dumbledore's pajamas pockets, and he almost rummaged through them.

"What are you looking for?" Dumbledore took a half-step on his hind legs vigilantly, blocking the coffee cup in front of him.

"The book of admission." Toby said as a matter of course: "This must be worthy of the post of principal. Now that the pen of acceptance has been given to me, I will definitely not be short of the book of admission. With your suicide note, I really didn't expect to be the next headmaster so soon. Do I need to publish the content of the suicide note in "Quieter"? And Severus, you said I let him be the school administrator How about it? Still a gamekeeper, huddled in the cabin with Hagrid?"

Dumbledore's smile became more and more kind, and Toby looked uncomfortable.

"Just pretend I didn't ask." He backed away slowly, planning to slip away by chance.

Today Dumbledore is very talkative. He smiled and said, "Listen to me, Toby, nothing will happen. You just need to find Voldemort as soon as possible and eliminate the hidden dangers in the wizarding world. This is more important than anything else."

"Really?" Toby asked doubtfully.

Dumbledore nodded, ready to leave with his empty coffee cup.

But at this moment, Toby suddenly stopped Dumbledore, and he hurried back to the Room of Requirement, took out the skull from the arms of Harry who was washing his face with his eyes closed, and then hurried back , put the skull in Dumbledore's hand.

"If necessary." Toby obviously sensed something, so he wanted to contact Dumbledore at any time in this way.

Dumbledore didn't refuse, and didn't even ask about Harry's affairs, and left directly with the skull.

Just when Toby was full of guesses about Dumbledore's guess, Dumbledore himself had returned to the principal's office. He changed his witch robe, took out the old wand, stared at it silently for a while, and then let Fawkes fly over and whispered to it Said, "It's time to go."

The rising flames ignited and took Dumbledore away from Hogwarts.

The place where he reappeared was on a cliff, under the dark sky, the raging tide was beating hard, making white water waves.

Someone here is already waiting for him.

Gellert Grindelwald was standing more than ten feet away. He looked at the prison fortress in the distance, then slowly turned around, smiled at Dumbledore and said, "This place is better than Nurmengard, There are cellmates, and there are dementors."

"Then what do you already control?" Dumbledore asked calmly.

Grindelwald was not at all surprised by Dumbledore's question, he said with a smile: "It's dementors, they are dark creatures, they can be easily controlled by people, but there are too many incompetent people Occupying a high position, there is no way to make them really do what they are told."

The two looked at each other in silence, and the atmosphere was more tense than inside the fortress.

Suddenly, Grindelwald said again: "I thought it would be Toby Highmore, but I didn't expect it to be you. This meeting is a bit premature, but...how did you know?"

"It's very simple." Dumbledore said standing on the edge of the cliff: "Deathly Hallows, you have pursued Deathly Hallows, that can also be regarded as part of ancient magic, and it can be easily connected with the magic ball. As for Thunder Gulus. Few people can defeat the pride of the members of the Black family, except for Voldemort, I can't think of anyone else, only you are the most likely."

"Gellert" Dumbledore suddenly lowered his voice and said, "You broke the oath between us and fled from Nurmengard without permission. Do you really think I will let you go this time?"

"It hurts." Grindelwald shook his head and said, "Is this what you mean?"

In his hand, a small glass bottle floated up, containing a red liquid, which was the blood of him and Dumbledore, and also the second blood alliance they formed.

"Day after day," he whispered, "I live in Nurmengard every day, lingering on my last breath, and I don't know how many years have passed since that duel."

"After defeating me, you didn't kill me, but sent me to be judged. For this reason, I have been thinking, is it because you don't want to defile your own soul, or is it because of the prophecy I made—— A prophecy about my death."

He held a skeleton smoking bottle in his hand, took a light breath, and then exhaled the smoke, forming a picture between the two of them.

In the picture, Grindelwald, much older than he is now, lies on the bed board of the prison, staring out the window with his deep-set eyes, and then laughs, almost losing all his teeth
Until a green light hit him, Grindelwald died like this, and finally died in Nurmengard.

The screen is over.

Dumbledore was silent for a moment, then sighed, "Then why did you break your oath—"

"No!" Grindelwald interrupted suddenly: "This time you are wrong, Albus, it's not my broken oath, but the blood alliance itself has failed."

Accompanied by Grindelwald's whispers, the vial containing the blood suddenly exploded and shattered into countless pieces. The hot blood dripped onto the ground, making a sizzling sound, and a thin layer of white smoke billowed up.

"I thought you'd be interested in seeing this."

Grindelwald took another sip from the skull pipe, and then exhaled a thick puff of smoke.

The picture has changed.

The location was no longer Nurmengard, but a dusty room with battered furniture, as though no one had been there for a long time.

"Screaming Shack," said Dumbledore, who recognized the room.

"Keep watching." Grindelwald said slowly, "This is a prophecy I discovered many years later."

It didn't take long for the scene to change quickly. Grindelwald was pointed into the room by a magic wand. He tripped over the sofa and fell accidentally. At this moment, a green light suddenly appeared, hitting Hit Grindelwald, causing him to fall silently.

The person holding the wand appeared, and he walked slowly to the center of the screen, picked up the wand in Grindelwald's hand, and looked at it fascinated.

This man is Toby Highmore.

He looks like he killed Grindelwald in a prophecy.

This is not over, and then the picture changed in the eyes of the two viewers, and it was replaced by Nurmengard's prison.

The person lying on the bed was no longer Grindelwald, but a much older Dumbledore, looking miserable and curled up like no one had ever seen him before.

It was Toby Highmore again, he appeared in front of the dilapidated bed board, and killed Dumbledore with the Killing Curse without hesitation.

Only then did the prophecy come to an end.

"You have an amazing student." Grindelwald broke the silence and fixed his eyes on Dumbledore: "Do you know when I made the second prophecy?"

Without waiting for Dumbledore to ask, Grindelwald continued: "It was a full moon night more than ten years ago. At that time, I was recalling the past as usual-you know, the speech, the Deathly Hallows, And the ridiculous wizard supremacy in your mouth, anyway, I foresee this picture, it seems to be stuffed into my brain out of thin air."

"Then, the blood alliance will be invalidated."

He looked at the bloodstains on the ground that had evaporated and said.

"But I didn't leave Nurmengard in a hurry. I had to figure out the reason for the change. Fortunately, my later subordinates—no, they were students. Under your influence, I also like students very much now This title, they also call me a professor."

"One of the students happened to be brothers with a member who participated in a werewolf attack, and he told me the reason - it turned out that the student who killed us in the prophecy prevented his friend from being attacked by a werewolf that night. The attack, the location of the incident was also at the Screaming Shack, it all fits in."

"But there is only one thing that no one knows-for a short time, your excellent student and that poor werewolf were alone for a while, and there must have been an earth-shattering duel or something, Maybe even more spectacular than the one we've been a part of."

"Because that's when the prophecy changed."

"This is something that has never happened before, ancient magic. I never thought that ancient magic would have so many magical effects. Maybe I shouldn't have looked for the Deathly Hallows in the first place."

"Of course, I've learned enough by now, but the irony is that it led me to discover the real secret of the Deathly Hallows - Ignotus Peverell, creator of the Invisibility Cloak, who His bones are buried in Azkaban, and it turns out that he is also a wizard who has truly defeated death, and it is easy for some of your students' collections to not be touched rashly."

"This is suppression at different levels. Wizards who pursue immortality are naturally afraid of those who have defeated death."

"Anyway, I can probably guess where the experience of that night was put—it's also one of your student's collections, an ice cube that will never melt, and it's in there."

"Toby Highmore must remove this memory. You should have seen his hidden dangers. Otherwise, he would not have lived for such a long time. This part of memory must be sealed."

After finishing this long speech, Grindelwald silently waited for Dumbledore's reaction.

Dumbledore sighed and shook his head, "Then why did you do this? What is your purpose that requires you to plan for so many years?"

"Trivial interest." Grindelwald said with a smile: "Perhaps, add your death. You heard me right, Albus, it was your death that really caught my mind, and that was more interesting than anything else." .”

"If I have to say it, I don't really want you to die in Nurmengard. I've lived there for a long time, and it's not very good. Compared to an ugly prison, I would rather I hope your death should be... heroic? I don't know, it's better than dying alone, even Hogwarts is better than Nurmengard."

Dumbledore turned his attention to the prison fortress known as Azkaban. There were many black figures floating in the sky, and the dementors bared their teeth and claws, exuding icy cold air, which seemed to freeze the sea water.

"Looks like I have to agree." Dumbledore's eyes cast a captivating look: "Otherwise, what would you do? Use them to threaten me? Order these dementors to cause trouble everywhere?"

"It's not difficult." Grindelwald said with a pun: "It just proves your weight in my heart, not only in England, but in the entire wizarding world. And, maybe it's not just dementors, your The student was really great, and he showed me a lot of weird stuff. Besides, his idea seemed interesting to me - kill all the pure blood wizards, if I ask him, he should be properly Let’s relax a bit, order these pure-blood wizards to meet Muggles, marry them and have children, at least it won’t look so bloody.”

"Wars are always bloody," said Dumbledore. "You and I have seen this before."

"That depends on your choice." Grindelwald said slowly, "Albus."

Bright lightning pierced the sky, the dementors were connected together, thicker than the dark clouds, and the prisoners in the prison wailed numbly.

At this moment, Dumbledore let go of his grip on the wand.

He said: "It's time to conclude a third blood alliance. There must be restrictions on your behavior."

Grindelwald continued: "And I will pretend to be you and serve as the principal of Hogwarts. Maybe my educational experience is not as much as yours, but you can rest assured."

"Yes." Dumbledore suddenly smiled: "I am very relieved to let you investigate Toby. Believe me, I know my student better than anyone else."

He threw the skull that Toby gave him before, and Grindelwald caught it firmly, put it in his hand and observed it carefully: "Let me see who this could be. Antioch (the old wand), Or Cadmus (Resurrection Stone)."

At this moment, the other side of the skeleton seemed to sense that someone was trying to contact itself. Its mouth opened up and down, and Toby asked curiously: "Principal, is that you? How are you now, are you seriously injured?" ?Dead or not—ah, no, I mean, where did you hide the suicide note, and the employment arrangement, how can I not find it? Are you planning to come back? Or let Fox come to me, I It will be settled properly, so you can go at ease, as long as it takes."

Grindelwald held down the skull all at once, interrupting its sound.

"He's amazing." Grindelwald said, looking up.

Dumbledore responded with a smile: "I won't let you use the Pensieve. If you have to use the skull smoking pot, I remember that in addition to the memory, you also need the blood of the rememberer. You can try it, Gellert .”

"Try to see if you can get what you want, or after I go back, I find that the seat in the principal's office has changed."

(End of this chapter)